Coin-chute.



G. A. LONG.

(JOIN GHUTE. APPLICATION FILED JULY-22, 1912.

1 1,061,093. I Patented May 6,1913.

fil/venar:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

GEORGE A. LONG, OF HARTFORD. CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE GRAY TELEPHONE PAY STATION COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT. A CORPORATION OF CON- N ECTICUT.

com-entire.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6. 1913.

Application filed July 22, 1912. Serial No. 710.783.

12/ all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Gsouor: A. 'Loxo, a

citizen of the United States. residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coin- Chutes, of which the following is a specification;

This invention relates to coin chutes and while a device involving my invention can be employed withlutility in many different connections it is of especial advantage when incorporated in a compound chute such as is used in telephone pay stations.

The primary object of the invention is to provide an article of the kind mentioned, which is simple in construction and which has means for positively preventing a coin from lodging or catching therein between the ends thereof.

The present invention is an improvement on the structure shown in Letters Patent No.

- 912,389 granted to me February 16, 1909 and to which reference may be had. In said Letters Patent is shown an organization which is highly advantageous under ordinary conditions and which comprises three chutes adapted respectively for receiving and forwarding nickels, dimes and quarters, the present invention being particularly an improvement on the chute which is adapted for the reception and transmission of the nickels. In the nickel chute of said Letters Patent thereis a channeled body member and a cover member therefor and when these two parts are assembled there are presented between the same cracks or crevices and in the same a thin coin of small diameter is aptto lodge, this being the case especially with Canadian half dimes, and when this occurs the chute is blocked against the passage of other coins thereby causing considerable trouble and annoyance. By the pres- -or bead or its equivalent might be provided ever. to suchdisclosure: I may depart therefrom in several re pects within the scope of the invention defined by the claims following said description.

Referring tosaid drawings: Figure 1 is an elevation of a telephone p'ay station equipped with a compound chute embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of a pof-tion of the nickel chute, and, Fig. 3 1s a cross section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

- Like characters referto like throughout the several views.

' In Fig. 1 of the drawings I have shown the casingof a telephone pay station the same being denoted by .5 and inclosing in its parts upper part, the compound chute Gwvhich comprises the chutes 7 8 and 9 adapted respectively .to receive and forward nickels, dimes and quarters which. coins after the usual custom, sound signals at predetermined points in their travel along the sevcral chutes, said signals being as usual of different character.

As will be understood from the observations 'alreadymade my invention resides in the nickel chute 7, which comprises a channeled body member 10 and a cover member 11 fitted thereto and which are held in assembled relation in the manner shown by said prior Letters Patent or in any other suitable Way. here the cover member 11 engages against the side walls of the channeled body memberlO there are resented cracks or crevices 12 which w ile very narrow have still been found in practice, sufliciently wide to present a lodgment for coins and tokens ofsmall diameter and very thin. Of course such a thing as an American quarter, a nickel or even a dime lodging in such cracks is practically impossible; theCan-adian half-dime, however, will and actually has audit is to prevent this particular condition that the invention was devised. The result desired can be accomplished in any deslrable manner, although it is best-secured by companion fins or beads 13 extending in parallelism alonglthe inher face of the-cover member 11 and covering or overlying the cracks or crevices 12. IVhile said fins or beads may be of any desirable extent they are prefbrably coextensive with the chute 7. IVhile it is conceivable that in some cases but a single fin I prefer to duplicate the same owing to the irregular formation of the chute 7. Were 'said chute 7 straight a single bead fin or analogous part would attain theend 1n view. It will be-clear that the inwardly extending beads or fins 13 bridge or extend across the cracks or crevices 12 an extent sufiicient 15 'tending across the cracks between said body and cover member substantially from end to end of the chute. f

2. A coin chute comprising a'channeled body member, and a cover member fitted against the sides of said channeled body member having inwardly projecting integralfins extending across the cracks between said body and cover members for approxi mately the complete length of the chute.

3. An irregular coin chute comprising a i channeled body member, and a covermember fitted against the sides of said body member, having inwardly extending rigid fins projecting across the cracks between said body and cover membersfor approxii mately the entire length of the chute.

In testimony whereof I alfix my'signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE A. LONG.

Witnesses:

EDGAR S. BLAIR,

ELEANOR M.. Hnnrmr. 

